Why Do They treat Us This Way ?

[chillerman2006]

Service Engineers

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Ever had the feeling at work that your being pushed too hard, made to do more hours than you want & quite often more hours than is safe for you to do ?

Yes! is the answer coming from every single one of you.

You know what to expect if you put up a fuss & try to knock back a job – its not a nice situation to be in

The fact remains that although we all enjoy a bit of overtime to bump up our money, we don’t want to kill ourselves doing so & in fact now days there really is no reason to do so, we just need to find a way to use current laws to our benefit without ending up facing a rollicking or worse still the boot either directly or indirectly.

We all would like a decent work/life balance and we would have that if it were not for scrupulous managers, especially the ones that used to work beside you on the tools, there the worst, pretending to be your friend for years & then the chance arises for them to move into the office & wham they stab you all in the back taking away any long term perks you once had & this is all done just to prove themselves to their new buddies in the office where they feel the need to do something to gain acceptance as in effect they are the newbie now & all this is done at their old friends/colleagues expense.


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One option to start with is have an engineer on night shift (some like nights) to cover calls or when an engineers call out week comes round they do the graveyard shift and have the daytime free...